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Complexly's catalog lacks acquisition value because it can never be paywalled
“So obviously I think that there's a lot of value that it creates, but I don't know that it's that valuable because you can't pay wallet. Right. Because that's outside of the promise that has been made. All of the content is free. So it's creating the value, bu…”
Hank Green: Luck is structural advantage rather than random chance
“Luck is not like rolling dice. It's a series of structures and power systems That make paths easier for certain people.”
Optimizing for views and revenue ultimately harms the health of your community
“Optimizing for views is And optimizing for revenue does not optimize for the health of one's community, necessarily.”
Green Brothers: Businesses Always Capture Only a Minority of the Value They Create
“What your actual business is, is creation of value. And that there's always a majority of that value that isn't being captured by you. It's being captured elsewhere.”
DFTBA is a $25 million company operating on very narrow margins
“So you can say that DFTBA is a, I don't know, twenty five million dollar company, but a lot of that money is going back. And it's very narrow margin business, as is complexly.”
All Green brothers' ventures have been bootstrapped and profitable from inception
“We've never taken on substantial investment for any of our things. Everything that we do has been profitable from the beginning. It's grown with its own, I guess they call it bootstrapped where you take the profit and use that to grow the company rather than t…”
Green Brothers: Advertising Is Complexly's Main Revenue, Supported By Grants and Crowdfunding
“That's definitely the biggest piece of the pie. And then the rest is crowdfunding and grants. So organizations that are like, hey, you're making this and you're making it for free. Like, we'd like you to make an episode, like a series on this particular topic,…”